Saudi Arabia’s visit to Russia coincides with retreat of the US role in the region. Saudi Arabia’s failure in the region, especially in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, has forced the Saudi regime to change its strategy in the region.

The visit was followed by Saudi Arabia being blacklisted by the United Nations for its crimes in Yemen. The punishment did not come for the eyes of Yemen’s children, but was considered an American-Israeli pressure until Saudi Arabia returned to them.

This visit came for several case, the most important is the Yemeni file, mediation with Iran, new arms deals with Russia.

Observers believe that King Salman’s visit to Russia and its approval to purchase the Russian air defense system to Saudi Arabia is a blow to American companies and expose its industry, especially after the failure of American and Israeli air defense systems to intercept Yemeni ballistic rockets and that Saudi Arabia has taken Seriously warnings from the leader of the Yemeni revolution Abdul Malik Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi.

The Saudi military industry said that the kingdom would “receive the latest technology” from Russia and it would buy the Russian S-400 defense system, but did not specify the date of delivery.

According to some analysts, the political dimension was important in this visit. Saudi Arabia wants to diversify its sources of armament, diversify its sources of income, and establish a strategic alliance with Moscow, and Russia exchanged the same ambitious and Saudi Arabia wants is limited into two things: To prevent the spread of Iranian influence in the region, and the second: to search for a way to step out of the Yemeni war, which the failure of “resolute storm” to resolve militarily during two and a half years, and we have not information about the Russian position in both cases.

The Saudi king is also looking for ways to get out from the Yemeni quagmire with the Russians in a political solution, and Saudi leadership wants that the balance of power in Yemen does not tend to favor of Ansar Allah.

In the economic frame, the Saudi monarch said that the efforts of the Kingdom and Russia in the field of oil “resulted in the agreement to reduce production and balance the interests of consumers and producers,” stressing that Saudi Arabia’s keenness to “stabilize the world oil market.”